Estratégia de gestão de pessoas: controle ou comprometimento no contexto escolar

Abstract

The research objective was to adapt and validate a model focused on generic strategies for managing people, control and commitment (ALBUQUERQUE, 1999), for the educational context of high school. In Brazilian literature Albuquerque (1999) became a classic as well as the generic strategies of people, improving the concept of these management strategies through control or involvement of people, based in Walton (1985). The research design was exploratory, with the qualitative method and inductive research, grounded in the perspective of reality constructed by individuals interacting with their social worlds, with the primary concern to understand the phenomenon under study, from the perspective of strategy actors. For the field study four public high schools in the State of São Paulo, located on the east side of São Paulo were selected. Two data collection instruments were used: interview and questionnaire. Under the temporal perspective the data collection was cross-sectional, that is, when the survey occurred in April and May 2013. The data analysis was then performed by means of content analysis (BARDIN, 1971). The results showed that the directors consider that the managing people model aiming commitment is adopted in schools. It is noticed that these results support the legislation on education. The results showed that the officers responded according to the model of managing people facing commitment. But there are still contradictions between theory and practice. We note that the principles of democratic governance are being incorporated into the day to day schools